Michael Rosen reflects…
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Michael Rosen is on fine form as he takes a jaundiced view of the posturings of Stephen Pollard, (editor), Alex Brummer, Lee Harpin and other stellar contributors to the Jewish Chronicle and even more right-wing outlets.
For those with short memories Stephen Pollard, announced in 2006 that there was a ‘battle to save Western civilisation’; that the ‘enemy’ was ‘the Left in any form’; and later, that Miliband was ‘toxic’ for Jewish voters.
Since then he and the others have only got more excitable…
This article was originally published by Facebook on Tue 12 Nov 2019. Read the original here.
Take this step by step folks.
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This is so helpful. I’ve forwarded this to my local canvassing teams.
We are in serious danger of coming under Far Right government than at any time in history. Look how leading Tories are embracing Turning Point whose communications director Candace Owen said in a speech that Hitler would have been acceptable if only he had confined his activities to Germany. The woman is married to a Tory donor. Paradoxically,it will be the Jewish community that will suffers most under such a government. Then there is the idea that an authoritarian government is preferable to a democratic government that is seeking change. All this is being brought together at the same time.
Chris Williamson is right. Labour has consistently been on the back foot when the slur of anti-Semitism is used to attack the left. In my opinion it was a mistake not to discipline Margaret Hodge for her disgraceful attack on Jeremy Corbyn in the the House of Commons. She’s on the rampage now she’s been reselected (how did that happen?) saying she agrees with ex-labour MPs calling on labour supporters to vote for Boris. Isn’t it about time she was disciplined, better still kicked out of the Party? We need a Jewish anti-Zionist Labour MP. I would offer, but I’m getting on a bit now.
Does everyone remember when Peter Mandelson declared in 2017: “I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of [Jeremy Corbyn’s] tenure in office. Something, however small it may be – an email, a phone call or a meeting I convene – every day I try to do something to save the Labour Party from his leadership”?
When I looked it up, I discovered that he made this remark to Stephen Pollard at “an event for the Jewish Chronicle”. I wonder how much he has been involved in the smear campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/21/peter-mandelson-i-try-to-undermine-jeremy-corbyn-every-day
Thank you Mike. Can you manage to slip any of this past J Freedland in your next Guardian column….? Maybe something about the need for citizenship/ media education in schools?
Great article? Thanks. A word about liberal commentators, they are doing what all liberals do all the time: spend every moment attacking the left, this is the key diagnostic for liberalsm.
Those behind this fake “antisemitism” slurs are now upping the ante, with the announcement by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” of a demonstration “against antisemtism” on December 8th! Interesting move for an apparent “charity” in the middle of an election campaign. I think the only possible response by Labour can be an anti-racist demonstration, perhaps highlighting in particular Priti Patel’s latest measures against Roma and Sinti people.
This amusing short video sums up the baseless nature of the allegations of antisemitism.
Very amusing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUfXdm9i63Q
I congratulate you on your very knowledgable article exposing the right wing cabal at work to destroy the current left leaning Labour Party.
A quick correction: Margaret Hodge wasn’t the chair of the Audit Commission but of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee when she made her important calls for corporations to pay fair taxes. She was reselected (in my constituency) because of the good work she has done locally and in Parliament and because on the night she showed herself to be superior by miles to her challengers.
How ‘spot on’ can one get?